states congress in the united states senate. mr. president, as senator chambliss said, judge martin comes from a long distinguished family of lawyers from middle georgia, and she comes to the bench with a balanced temperament and the evenhanded process that comes from growing up in middle georgia and having a respect for their fellow man around them. mr. president, i don't know judge martin and did not know judge martin until she was nominated, and i'm not an attorney so i didn't have a lot to fall back on when i made my first judgment. so i decided what i would do, what i always did in my 33 years of business, i figured you could always find out what was at the heart of someone by calling those that competed with them, other members of the same profession. so i called lawyers, judges, prosecutors around georgia, friends that i had, to say, listen, tell me what you know about judge beverly martin. and without exception, every response was positive. it was interesting, the one district attorney i talked to said, i like her becaus